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  1. Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI (maarthandam.com)
    ×7.18 87 | 155 points by whynotmaybe 3 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Python Applied Mathematics Labs (byu.edu)
    ×1.75 47 | 81 points by vvin 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences?
    ×0.98 49 #67 | 53 points by ecophyseis 7 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Microsoft denies rewriting Windows 11 in Rust using AI (windowslatest.com)
    ×3.05 38 | 66 points by zdw 15 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Show HN: I treated my brain like a buggy server and wrote a patch (Shi-Mo Model) (github.com/317317317apple-a11y)
    ×2.22 64 | 6 points by ShiMo_Protocol 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together (ivanca.github.io)
    ×2.79 34 #58 | 223 points by AmbroseBierce 19 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Why We Abandoned Matrix (2024) (hackliberty.org)
    ×1.90 33 | 191 points by Flere-Imsaho 1 day ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Free Software Foundation receives historic private donations (fsf.org)
    ×3.76 29 #46 | 187 points by pentagrama 14 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Available domain names for your next project (sneakydomains.com)
    ×2.19 50 | 4 points by starf1sh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. EV sales in Norway increased from 1% of sales in 2010 to 96% in early 2025 (balkanweb.com)
    ×2.75 68 | 4 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better) (helix.ml)
    ×3.11 24 #89 | 512 points by quesobob 2 days ago | 313 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Silicon Valley's tone-deaf take on the AI backlash will matter in 2026 (fortune.com)
    ×3.17 25 | 67 points by howToTestFE 18 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. PEP 686 – Make UTF-8 mode default (python.org)
    ×2.30 43 | 4 points by tosh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Unifi Travel Router (ui.com)
    ×2.69 23 #82 | 459 points by flurdy 1 day ago | 411 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video] (archive.org)
    ×13.28 22 #69 | 1642 points by lawlessone 2 days ago | 543 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Researchers achieved 1,270 Wh/L in an anode-free lithium metal battery (postech.ac.kr)
    ×1.65 22 | 111 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Looking for Decent Conversation?
    ×1.75 21 | 97 points by kmstout 23 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Roots of milk drinking revealed by South Asian genomes (science.org)
    ×1.94 48 | 3 points by bikenaga 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The 'doorman fallacy': why careless adoption of AI backfires so easily (theconversation.com)
    ×2.00 52 | 3 points by scentoni 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. AI Withholds Life-or-Death Information Unless You Know the Magic Words (substack.substack.com)
    ×2.39 20 | 37 points by llamataboot 14 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Beijing is enforcing tough rules to ensure chatbots don’t misbehave (wsj.com)
    ×1.57 19 | 82 points by bookofjoe 22 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash (cnbc.com)
    ×4.88 19 #34 | 627 points by nickrubin 21 hours ago | 360 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. The Mammoth Pirates – In Russia's Arctic north, a new kind of gold rush (rferl.org)
    ×1.64 37 | 3 points by ece20 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. All I Want for Xmas Is Your Secrets: LangGrinch Hits LangChain (CVE-2025-68664) (cyata.ai)
    ×2.02 59 | 3 points by shahartal 47 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. European Majority favours more social media regulation (yougov.co.uk)
    ×2.73 18 | 85 points by snowpid 23 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. AMD entered the CPU market with reverse-engineered Intel 8080 clone 50 years ago (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.38 17 #77 | 188 points by ksec 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Show HN: Why many AI-generated websites don't show up on Google (pagesmith.ai)
    ×1.30 28 | 3 points by manu_trustdom 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Steam Store is offline (steamstat.us)
    ×2.80 16 | 67 points by DetectDefect 21 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Texas app store age verification law blocked by federal judge (macrumors.com)
    ×1.91 13 | 314 points by danso 1 day ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. How I Left YouTube (zhach.news)
    ×2.37 13 #53 | 180 points by dhashe 20 hours ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Donald Knuth's 2025 Christmas lecture: the Knight's Tours (thenewstack.io)
    ×2.23 23 #39 | 8 points by MilnerRoute 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Some Epstein file redactions are being undone (theguardian.com)
    ×4.98 10 #47 | 981 points by vinni2 1 day ago | 752 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Project Dropstone: A Neuro-Symbolic Runtime for Long-Horizon Engineering [pdf] (blankline.org)
    ×0.43 13 #42 | 21 points by epicprogrammer 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Spaced repetition for efficient learning (2019) (gwern.net)
    ×1.47 10 #65 | 131 points by tsenturk 22 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. The Fisher-Yates shuffle is backward (wordpress.com)
    ×1.01 10 #30 | 57 points by possiblywrong 8 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached (github.com/mattermost)
    ×2.94 10 #16 | 286 points by xvilka 7 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents (github.com/freelawproject)
    ×3.12 8 #57 | 693 points by rendx 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ruby 4.0.0 (ruby-lang.org)
    ×5.03 7 #19 | 578 points by FBISurveillance 14 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves (404media.co)
    ×4.44 5 #90 | 808 points by chaps 3 days ago | 470 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
    ×2.84 5 | 437 points by nishilpatel 2 days ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. When compilers surprise you (xania.org)
    ×1.30 5 #62 | 233 points by brewmarche 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×7.83 5 #12 | 1714 points by basilikum 19 hours ago | 380 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years (bbc.co.uk)
    ×6.01 5 #8 | 655 points by rajeshrajappan 8 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian (twitter.com/haravayin_hogh)
    ×1.72 4 | 216 points by flaxxen 1 day ago | 451 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Microsoft Is Finally Killing RC4 (schneier.com)
    ×1.48 4 #55 | 10 points by jandeboevrie 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Mt. Gox CEO Karpelès Reveals Details of 2014 Collapse and Japanese Detention (bitcoinmagazine.com)
    ×2.24 3 | 84 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off Live Plus (pocket-lint.com)
    ×3.70 2 | 252 points by fcpguru 1 day ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Alzheimer's can be reversed to achieve full neurological recovery in animals (case.edu)
    ×4.28 3 #4 | 278 points by thunderbong 3 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???